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Managing Territories, Cities, and the Rural World

Cities for All ¤ Ana Sugranyes,
Charlotte Mathivet ¤ 2 June 2013This book is a response to the hope and to the call to unite under the Right to the City banner, giving the floor to a wide range of actors fighting for this right. The wide variety of views, discourses, cultures, and experiences are the guiding themes of this publication.Different ideas are articulated and their differences converged toward the same goal: the right to the city as a banner of the struggle against neoliberalism. This is not an ideological abstraction. What is presented are (...) read more

Territories: Paradigm Shifts That Need to Be Made for the Transition ¤ Pierre Calame ¤ 11 March 2012The following text is a summary of a number of proposals. It addresses only proposals for paradigm shifts, and not for the numerous improvements that could be made to the existing systems.
A/ What is at stake for territories
1. The territory, a hub of relations and flows in a globalized system.
Territories are objectively called to play a decisive role in designing and conducting the necessary transition. Whatever the subject, we discover that a city and a region are the best scale at (...) read more

Rural Areas and World Governance ¤ Matthieu Calame ¤ 15 November 2010Rural areas include managed forested areas, farming areas, and settled areas. These areas offer a huge diversity of situations, from prosperous zones to those in decline, from sparsely populated areas, possibly on the point of being abandoned, to zones of high population density that are very active, with a network of towns and trade activities.
These areas share a common set of challenges that they all have to face:
– using farming, forestry and freshwater fish-farming to manage (...) read more

Territories and Globalization: The Stakes of Development ¤ Jean-Philippe Peemans ¤ 10 March 2008Firstly lifted by the nationalist rhetoric conferring a central role on the United Nations, and then by the globalist and neoliberal rhetoric aiming to integrate the world market into a space without borders, the modernization of the South has not kept its promises. The approach of local popular practices, with their complexities and contradictions, explores the dimensions of a "re-territorialization" of the conditions for development.
In the relations between territories and (...) read more

“Guadalajara Declaration on the future of the city”. A Proposal ¤ Horacio Capel ¤ 2 December 2004From 28th November to 2nd December 2004 in Guadalajara, Mexico, an international conference was held on “The future of cities”. Over the four days a series of Mexican, Argentinean, German and Spanish researchers spoke about general and specific issues on this theme. In order to take part in this Round Table conference, the chairman had asked participants to present a number of general thoughts on the topic. By publishing these ideas, the author aims to contribute to the debate on the (...) read more

Managing Sea, Soil, and Energy Resources

Governance for Sustainability ¤ Klaus Bosselmann,
Prue Taylor,
Ron Engel ¤ 16 January 2012Relating the concept of governance to the concept of sustainability requires no less than reformulating the basics of democracy. It is clear that the past 20 years of neo-liberal economic globalization have eroded both the common good and democracy. Reclaiming lost ground, therefore, is paramount for disempowered communities and disenfranchised citizens. But this in itself will not be enough. The real issue is whether the common good, that is the sustainability of life, can be pursued (...) read more

Sustainable Forest Management ¤ Luis Felipe Cesar,
Olivier Ranke ¤ October 2001Proposal Paper containing different definitions of the forest, an analysis of the conflicts between forest and other land uses, with special focus on the economic and environmental impacts of increased use of land for agriculture.
Discussion in this Proposal Paper on the forest and on the different socioeconomic dimensions of forest management is conducted along three main lines. First, is considered the problematic existence of forest areas in relation to other uses of land. This point (...) read more

Rethinking and Changing World Governance ¤ Gustavo Marin ¤ 30 September 2011See also:
The Workshop
Video on the Workshop
September 3, 2011
following on from the
Biocivilization for the
Sustainability of Life
and the Planet
Rio de Janeiro, 10-12 August 2011*
Contents
Rethinking and changing world governance
Actors: their relations, their contradictions
1. Transnational corporations (TNCs)
2. The state
→dialectic between society and the state
→ role of the UN
→ China
3. People, communities, civil society, and a new relationship with nature
4. Local (...) read more

Environmental Governance and Managing the Earth ¤ Germà Pelayo ¤ 24 September 2008This file contains a series of discussions and proposals formulated in recent years around the environmental dimension of world governance. They have been categorized according to the following themes: reconstruction of the environmental balance; energy management, mineral and ocean resources; farming, food security, and sovereignty; sustainable development; and the relationship between humankind and the biosphere.
The crisis brought about by the accelerated pace and the probable (...) read more

The New Roles of States and Territorial Scales

What Europe does the world need? ¤ Pierre Calame ¤ 6 June 2010We often find ourselves asking the question: what Europe do we want? The time may have come to look at the question the other way round, and ask ourselves: what Europe does the world need?
Does the world even need Europe? It would be fair to say that today’s mood is one of disillusionment, and that the prospects for the European Union do not look very heartening. For its founding fathers, building the European Union was a major feat. They saw the Union as the means to move beyond the (...) read more

Conflict Resolution and Sustainable Peace Building

Videos of the Governance and Ressentiment Seminar ¤ FnWG Team,
Traversées ¤ 23 September 2009The "Governance and Ressentiment" seminar was held in Iquique, Chile, on December 5 and 6, 2008. It brought together various actors and intellectuals of the South Cone to work on the theme of ressentiment, which is rooted in the reality of the region and is also relevant globally. It was organized by CORAYUN and by the FnWG in the framework of a process leading to a South Cone Citizen Assembly.
Speeches and interviews are in Spanish and in French only.
The meeting (Spanish & French, (...) read more

Trade, Money, and Finances

Global Calling-for-help Center ¤ Youth Innovation Competition on Global Governance ¤ May 2007In the world there is a large number of local communities facing poverty problems that they cannot solve on their own. Existing institutions can only help a small percentage of these communities. There are many people in the world willing to offer their assistance, but they cannot find the proper places to offer their help because of the limits in information. At the moment, there is no mechanism that can connect people willing to give their help and people in need of help. The Global (...) read more

Agriculture, and Food Security and Sovereingty

Declaration of Nyéléni ¤ Forum for Food Sovereignty ¤ February 2007Nyéléni was the inspiration for the name of the Forum for Food Sovereignty in Sélingué, Mali. Nyéléni was a legendary Malian peasant woman who farmed and fed her people well - she embodied food sovereignty through hard work, innovation, and caring for her people. The participants are and represent peasant farmers, herders, fishworkers, indigenous peoples, migrant workers, women, and young people, who gathered at Nyéléni 2007. They are food providers who are ready, able, and willing to feed all the (...) read more